I spent my youth in Cameroun, Africa where I was overwhelmed with the diversity of the wildlife, especially since my family was coming from sterile California, USA. In Cameroun, I had to be constantly on the lookout for some sort of wildlife. My peripheral vision became highly developed for insects and and animals in my vicinity. What I saw there was that nature was full of life with every living being filling a niche and a role, and although it was mighty, it was fragile as well. At that time the government was expanding its logging capabilities of the surrounding forests where we lived as the thinking was that nature was there for the taking, and that it was so large, it would recover. I realized then that if everybody thought that, they would take all until it was all gone.
